This page is specifically for ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College students wanting to use the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Zoom site licence. ICT recommend you to use Microsoft Teams where possible to collaborate with your peers for teaching and learning.
Account Type
Undergraduate students using the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ licence will be given Basic Zoom accounts. A basic user can host meetings with up to 100 participants and all meetings are restricted to 40 minutes. Depending on meeting security settings you may be required to login to join the meeting, please ensure you use the SSO option to sign into your ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College account.
Postgraduate students using the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ licence will be given Zoom One for Education Enterprise Higher Ed Student accounts. Zoom One for Education Enterprise Higher Ed Student users can host meetings with up to 300 participants and are not restricted to the 40-minute time limit per meeting.
Access Zoom
To login to the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Zoom account via a web browser:
1. Log out of any personal Zoom accounts that you have, including the Zoom app.
2. . Please note that this link must be used as it is specifically for ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College.
3. Select Sign in from the Zoom website. 
4. This will open the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College Single Sign On screen – log in using your ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ username and password.
To login to the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Zoom account via the app:
1. From a personal device you can . If you are using a College owned device then you can
2. Once installed, open the Zoom desktop app and choose Sign in and then the option to Sign in with SSO. 
3. Enter the Domain name "imperial-ac-uk" and continue.
4. Now the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ SSO page will open in a web browser where you can enter your ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ username and password. This will automatically sign you into the Zoom app.
Please note that if you have already set up a Zoom account using your ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ credentials, then you may be prompted to merge your accounts the first time that you login with your ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ username and password.
If you do not want to merge accounts to access the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ licence, then we recommend you change your profile email address to a personal email address before following the steps above.
Joining meetings
ICT recommend that you log into Zoom (via SSO) to access any scheduled Zoom meetings. When you try to join a meeting you will be prompted to open or download the desktop app. The app provides you with the full meeting experience. Please note that joining meetings via the browser may not provide you with certain functionality such as polling.
Setting up meetings
Undergraduate students with a Basic account can host meetings with 100 participants. Postgraduate students with a Pro licence can host meetings with up to 300 users.
Recording meetings
As an ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ undergraduate student, you will be unable to record meetings to the Zoom cloud. Any recordings that you make will need to be saved to your own device. If you would like to share your recordings with other staff or students, we recommend that you upload your Zoom recordings to OneDrive for business and share them.
Postgraduate students will also be able to record to the cloud.
Zoom support
The . Support includes a virtual chatbot, FAQs and getting started guides. If you need further assistance, please contact the ICT Service Desk.
Data Protection
When using Zoom, please note that your use will be logged and that this information, together with other personal data about you contained within the system, will be used (i) if you are a student, by your tutors to monitor your academic progress and/or (ii) if you are a member of staff, casual worker, visiting academic, researcher, honorary or secondee, by the College to monitor your training progress in relation to compliance-related courses. The College uses student and staff personal data as described in the 'Privacy Notice for Students and Prospective Students' and in the 'Privacy Notice for Staff and Prospective Staff', respectively. For further information see also Digital Learning Platforms Privacy Notice [Word].